Page 61 - January1948

NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN 59

please do not send trays
_with buttons. For photographing they must be re_
mo'e(l from the rarst iard to a sniiti.i 'b;Ti;;* uv"seri,ilnF iliiiiriv it is only
addpd-expense. wdrvourd ;nc?;Ji-';ii "n,',-aia
packed carefully in a strong c-o"ntainei. - --- be removed from the cards and
-_^ I_t i: surprising how many eighteenth centur.y buttons tvere on sate at the
i.!^"ide-f,ttf"',,1!"11 '!?T"et?il:,i;,i." EJi,J%,'fil%*Li.S*"ij:{ .*iftr""31"{",HH{
-oiar-e.s
specimen of needle{'ork.- e rumbei oF trao eicirieni- wo,iri ana uorie-
-oi-liiiiii"t;;"ii""i;i;.r"
ba(ks with cat-sut. on_g-.9-l ahe; iad-oiiiiiea suin- riuiioni oi"irre orisinal
( ards! (our orvn nIi's. willlam- fittJ"
a-n' oi.'ieinar caro
-irii"e;""iu'-po"siule-
llL,1l",ii.3",t't.irt" "d:H ago right in-1"-*iiill-on,- sri- tt ese
Hau'lev-crow
-;;;s-iloi
". -ex!ibitecl-a number of flne older arumrnn'r buttons Durchased
t
l onr one of the dealers. In fact neariy ereil-o'e tric,t a;nre
-show as we met f rom time to time. - 'crasi "trutton-"-,' ii'-i""-i,.d'"io rl,pes to
nuo""
-u
irnro_ng the as alrrost everyone to lji:-ipe-"lri'UZi.g:* ir'some
-favorites
in that medinn. "ieirr"o "ta"s
At dinner one evening, cene o'Brien hacl a I_gr.se handba_g practicau]'full of
l)uttons that she had purrchaseA at ttre Siirji..* *u usuallJ, nad to wait a h2rlf_
houf o. so for ouf orriers so at all times coirectors'sed the time to good ad-
vantaRo hrr shorvins the gro.-p ttreir' l,urrtiiies of the oav.-- so--ciene's buttons
rvei e tltoloughly enjol.ed Ey iiiosi- oi rlJ'ri.jio"iav; tn"m.
. we prcsented in the- last issue the photographs of the dearers at the sholv
-.G -it
r'nd.., f, w glimpses of the show Ro;i; at i-n1-r,i^ncotn-a;d al;;'iil; 'oi dining
1! ,tll"- clayl)ool Hotcr._ In ,thrs issue o* iei;irai-vieiv-s 6ii*o rr..*"
'oorn
-rt
and as manl' of the NBS ofll.cial fnrnil,v and committee chairmen ai *.e could
fo.und _uD at the time the photograptr"r's.ai presenff rvil-'ii,i^io-J"ir,iu to knolv
-not
\vhen he lvorrld appear. so the gr.oups wel.6 prevlbisiv ;ii;";;i.-
. Possibll' one of the crlrestions nrost frequenily asked after a sho\r is-
\\'har seerred to be lh, tre;d in c;r!e;tirigi'-ius_t rihat s:er.. cotleciois tooking
fof ? r asked a n.r.bcr ot gearer:i ,rn.t lt- i",.i tt e crullsiiori-i-a"#ea nearty
"iie
all collectors rvith lvhom r hed..rr oqr.ofiqniii- to speir<.'- r'rom- irl:lieanings I
would r€port that the urrlrinfll in nnj'^ Lir.f i# Irlrterinl takes the lead and that
nleans in both the olrl alld ne w sr;t:( illl{.r)s. Good rr-orkrri"nJir'in' sirr quatitv
_
seem to be the forcrrrost_r€rrulsites.^ A close s"".ira-li-Eji";-;;'d iii" snraller
Iten* are not rteirg .verro.oked. r rrair gr'r";Dses at the contents of scores of
handbags and Nhat I sa$' bears out tite :ibove statement.
- .In reply to the inquirers r.egar.ding ilre tvinner of the best tray in the
Junior Division. The .Tuirior boy i!- ctrrisiopiier e.rr:io*,"irre'i6ri-iu"i'ira grand_
son rIrs. r{arold P. qnv.- Aicording to'his g.irndrrrirtlier,--ne IiiJ-te"arnea tne
-of
childfen's stories from the buttons ratfi"r- tiriin'ii uoor<.-' ,i irriiruti:"of'.r.
bers reDoLt similal cases tvith ilreir children or.grrrndchilclren. -r--
In. che-cking $,-ith IIiss prtricia Siml)son of the frrances llooper Agency re-
sr)onsible.fg_t'llre. \vrislev-Advertisernent in ahe-'i;tioii;i;c--;;;;ir"saen"*ot.i
III'seia; 4 H Club Newsj City anal State Teachers pe|iodiials. i"J maae it ptain
that the NRS uelcorrtcs Ju-ni,ois to nrerrrbersirip tr,. nortir. ai tiie reglra.
.rer.berrhip rate. rtach of these magazines carr:y a f'll
"'.rr"." pagJ Ad i; iir;i January
-lrosslbllltre.-r
nurrl).r setting forth the.&Nerr- rrrrexfrecterl play ln nurioiis. to tt.
Iriu (.ltts nnd torchers of toda]'s young fotkl
After the Shorv closed at six o,clock, e\-erJ:one attended to the various jobs
at hand. I)eaters cleared ilreir tabie! Cna rractea ifreii-itoc:f ;'aira 'many cot-
l('('tors Nho had been at the sho\l'eartieicime rracri-[l n;];-i.'-ai;anile
sct-u1,. Before nanv hou, s the prace rooked ai iii i,iirr'llolr,,o" otl'nt the
"ir,,"tfie
-ouing
orrt tinlo. The ExDr:ess Comnrn).' O packer.s conctuderl"their work.
"!oi-,
A long tabre $'as set and nbbut-mianigl-rt--or'iatei ianawi"ii"i,-iiiiik"ano coffee
u ere. brors-ht in, and abolrt a clozen ind J rrait .o:ot:ii"ii giirriii"J ior a tast
It \vas f.n rFcailing this or thit hippening of the pnst few da].s and
to l.lrrn
'o.nd-up. of others. There $'as such a rvoricleitur spirit of good feilolvship that
$ e all hated to leave.
, Tl,r", Cnrlso.ns,- Bessie Chantl)erlin and f were the last to go. -We sat until
alrnost t$.o o'clocl{ eoing or-er ilre Annual lrinutes a"a otrr"r -r-"t"",' ;o that all
reports. might. be. a-s-.p,.ri-ect as p"isirrle i"; ;;;.i1"; i;'l-t;";;i"i;;'iri.i"_o"rirs,
so ils to be inclucled in yorrr November we iii iJit'if--*n" most
important that eaeh of I'ou receive the u'ord -oi r.vhat
'agazin"e. rrLi,p"ii".i'"i iilai meeting
as soon as tve could give it to 1-ou.
- rt is difficult to crorvd into trvo mrgilzines, arong with the other research
-rriroii"iirat
that we present, the happenin€is at a Nitionil' Strow] and'^f r wiil
be refer.ing consta.trv-to thrs or that thl.oughout itJentire-^-"ia".'^'it si-pty
canno-t be helped' for it is-at such-times, trrcf iii""y imDortant ininss are brou*ht
to.lisht in this field. so- bear with me it t ierer to tni" l-".i1-""'iijl'ii""sIio* arte"
-The
this n-unrber, it is somethinE! r wart arrvays io-i.emember a;d i j.;;**i;at r am
not,alone in this respect. nreinirbi" ""r t'he rndiana SI"lu- So.:iuiv were in_
deed most gracious ancl -trome
-cooperative, soins ouf oC-tiiirii. ;i;i; d"ii;'ihe
kinally
thing, for all of us; and ,thbse o-f j,o"u tr'Jcti who sent your trays, club
-aeeeni-iie-
exh_ibitions or individual l-oans, do tii.ri,.' ,,pp*.i.trr.
gntherlng of eolleetors and srreetntor".. ^ - - -- "i "'"t.oii'
LILLIAN SIIITH ALBERT